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RIS citation export for TUPOY043: GEM*STAR Accelerator-Driven Subcritical System for Improved Safety, Waste Management, and Plutonium Disposition

TY - CONF
AU - Cummings, M.A.C.
AU - Johnson, R.P.
AU - Roberts, T.J.
ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine
ED - Kim, Dong Eon
ED - Kim, Kyung Sook
ED - Ko, In Soo
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
TI - GEM*STAR Accelerator-Driven Subcritical System for Improved Safety, Waste Management, and Plutonium Disposition
J2 - Proc. of IPAC2016, Busan, Korea, May 8-13, 2016
C1 - Busan, Korea
T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 7
LA - english
AB - Operation of high-power SRF particle accelerators at two US national laboratories allows us to consider a less-expensive nuclear reactor that operates without the need for a critical core, fuel enrichment, or reprocessing. A multipurpose reactor design that takes advantage of this new accelerator capability includes an internal spallation neutron target and high-temperature molten-salt fuel with continuous purging of volatile radioactive fission products. The reactor contains less than a critical mass and almost a million times fewer volatile radioactive fission products than conventional reactors like those at Fukushima. We describe GEMSTAR , a reactor that without redesign will burn spent nuclear fuel, natural uranium, thorium, or surplus weapons material. A first application is to burn 34 tonnes of excess weapons grade plutonium as an important step in nuclear disarmament under the 2000 Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement **. The process heat generated by this W-Pu can be used for the Fischer-Tropsch conversion of natural gas and renewable carbon into 42 billion gallons of low-CO2-footprint, drop-in, synthetic diesel fuel for the DOD.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 1998
EP - 2000
KW - neutron
KW - proton
KW - target
KW - simulation
KW - operation
DA - 2016/06
PY - 2016
SN - 978-3-95450-147-2
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-TUPOY043
UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2016/papers/tupoy043.pdf
ER -